13.0174 job for web-ster; tech design competition

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:46:34 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 174.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

[1] From: "James J. O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> (19)
Subject: looking to hire a web-ster

[2] From: Dene Grigar <dene@eaze.net> (72)
Subject: Call for Participation: Tech Design Competition

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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:31:23 +0100
From: "James J. O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: looking to hire a web-ster

I write to seek applications for some short-term web-making employment.

In 1992, I published an edition of and commentary on the Confessions of
Augustine with Oxford University Press. It sold well, was reviewed well,
and has now gone out of print and the rights reverted to me. I would like
to transform it into a hyperlinked text/commentary on the web. There are
various oddities about the form in which the text now exists (it was
created in the NotaBene software and still exists in those flat ASCII
files with the distinctive NB formatting) and there are some
interesting small issues in reorganizing material for web presentation.
Mostly what is required, however, is some ability to write scripts that
will do a series of global actions in the correct order -- both
search/replace, but also creating links and giving them distinct names,
etc. I can pay an hourly rate according to the skills brought to bear. I
would like the task completed by January 2000. Text is 80,000 words,
commentary is approximately 300,000 words. Good html and appropriate
programming skills required. Some facility with Latin would be helpful
but is not strictly necessary. Inquiries to the undersigned.

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:31:50 +0100
From: Dene Grigar <dene@eaze.net>
Subject: Call for Participation: Tech Design Competition

Call for Participation
Computers and Writing 2K Conference

Technology Product Design Competition
http://www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2k/bridge.html

The Computers and Writing 2000 Technology Product Design Competition
invites entries from organizations and individuals who have introduced
hardware and/or software that has significant implications for teaching
and learning activities associated with computer-based rhetoric and
writing. We seek to award prizes to outstanding organizations and
individuals in three categories

1. Teaching and Learning Technologies for Rhetoric and Writing in K-12
Education
2. Teaching and Learning Technologies for Rhetoric and Writing
in University Education
3. Teaching and Learning Technologies for Rhetoric and Writing in
Industry.

One organizational winner and one individual winner will be selected for
each of the three categories, and these winners will be recognized at the
Saturday night Awards Banquet, as well as in media coverage of the
competition.

Qualifications
Organizational honors are reserved for outstanding teams of people who
design hardware and/or software; entrants should have shared or
organizational rights to the
technologies they enter. Individuals can enter the competition, designing
technologies for profit; this category should include who have sole rights
to innovations.

Entry requirements
All entrants should provide technologies for display and judging in a
central conference area during the May 25-28 conference dates, in
cooperation with competition organizers, and with the technologies,
entrants should include appropriate documentation. Entries also require a
short description (one page or less), which should summarize the
technology's capabilities and outline its qualifications for the award.
All proposals are due by October 1, 1999.

Selection criteria
All technologies will be evaluated for their specific contribution to
teaching and learning activities associated with computer-based rhetoric
and writing. In particular, judges will look for design characteristics
(purpose, functionality, interface, etc.), operational characteristics
(performance of specific operations, reshaping of activities, etc.), and
educational value (potential to impact specific educational practices,
transformative possibilities, etc.).

Submission Procedure
All entrants can submit proposals for the CW2K Technology Product Design
Competition in three ways:

1. Use the online proposal submission forms, or
2. Submit a postal letter of application to either of the Technology
Product Design Competition coordinators, whose postal addresses are
provided below. This is a
good choice if you want to include pictures or other documentation with
your proposal, or
3. Submit an email letter of application to either of the Technology
Product Design Competition coordinators,
whose email addresses are provided below.

Whether submitting a postal or email letter, entrants should specify the
competition category they are pursuing, whether their entry's status will
be organizational or individual, the name of the technology being entered,
and any other information they feel important to explaning the
significance of their entry. As the conference approaches, the Technology
Product Design Competition organizers will contact all entrants to review
set-up and judging procedure and to answer any questions entrants might
have.

James A. Inman Director, Center for Collaborative Learning and
Communication, Furman University
3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC 29613
james.inman@furman.edu

Krista Homicz, JPEE
2014 School of Education
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
khomicz@umich.edu

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